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High · 8.7 CVE-2026-68899 EUVD-2026-62706

Wekan: File Upload MIME Type Validation Bypass — Stored XSS via Missing System Binary Fallback

Published Aug 19, 2026 · Updated Aug 21, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Wekan is open source kanban built with Meteor. Prior to 9.90, isFileValid() in models/fileValidation.js used the Unix file command for content-based MIME detection, but detectMimeFromFile() silently returned undefined when that binary was unavailable and the validation fell back to the attacker-controlled fileObj.type supplied through server/routes/attachmentApi.js. On deployments with WITH_API=true and no file binary, an authenticated board member could label HTML containing JavaScript as image/png, bypass the dangerous MIME check, and store active content under the Wekan origin for execution when another user opened it. Version 9.90 adds looksLikeDangerousMarkup() to inspect file bytes and force dangerous-content scanning when MIME detection is unavailable. This issue is fixed in version 9.90.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
wekan wekan < 9.90 —

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